Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social Change (SUNY Press Excelsior Editions, 2025) collects essays from several experts focusing on the struggle to fulfill the American Revolution‘s ideals of freedom and equality for all people over the history of New York. The State has often led the nation toward expanding its peoples’ rights.
The book’s chapters cover topics like civil rights, women’s rights, and gay rights, social justice, highlighting New York’s role as a leader in social change through various turning points such as the Oneida and later Anti-Rent Rebellions, from the state’s first constitution to modern crises like 9/11 and COVID-19.
The book shows a New York continuously in revolution through sixteen historical stories about conflict, change and turning points from the initial settlement of the region through the state’s first constitution, and struggles for human rights…